OLMC New Year Party

Please find attached the flyer and Menu for the OLMC New Year Party. The ticket is $65 a person and there is an extensive buffet included and free drinks, casino, Professional live Band and Dancing, hats, bells & whistles etc, This will be a blast. Please let everyone know and tickets are still available. Tickets can be ordered thru me or the Parish front office (858) 484-1070 . The event starts at 9pm and ends 1.30 AM.

We also have raffle tickets at $5 a ticket or $20 for 5 tickets. The prize is $1,000 and you need not be present to win.

Catholic Men's Conference in Ranch Santa Fe Nov 8

Greetings from Catholic Men's Fellowship,

You are invited to a great Southern California Men's Conference set for Saturday November 8. It is sponsored by the men's group of the Parish of the Nativity in Rancho Santa Fe (north San Diego County ). The theme for the event is "Saul, Paul and Me". We are expecting this to be an exceptional and inspiring day.

Speakers include retired Bishop Sylvester Ryan of the Diocese of Monterey and well known author Ken Blanchard, author of the best seller "The One Minute Manager." It will start at 9 am, include a continental breakfast and lunch, and close with mass at 5 pm. Confessions will be offered during the day. There is no charge for the conference, a free will offering will be taken.

It is necessary to register online at www.Catholicmen.org. Those who register by the end of the month will receive books from Ken Blanchard and Matthew Kelly. We hope that you can make it. And, this will be a wonderful conference to invite a friend.

Bible study site

What is the Great Adventure?

The Great Adventure is a Catholic Bible learning system that makes the complex simple by teaching the story (the narrative) of the Bible. Every day, more and more people are encountering God’s Word through the methods taught in The Great Adventure.

Jeff Cavins developed The Great Adventure in 1984 when he realized that most people, despite their strong faith, did not grasp the “big picture” of the Bible. Though they knew selected stories, they were not able to connect them into a full narrative. His answer was to identify the books of the Bible that tell the story from beginning to end. By reading just these 14 “narrative” books, a chronological story emerges.

From this idea grew the immensely popular Bible Timeline program, which teaches the story in a way that is easy to remember and helps people to continue reading Scripture on their own. Hundreds of thousands of Catholics have learned to read the Bible through this system, which provides a solid foundation for all other reading and study.

Since the creation of The Bible Timeline, The Great Adventure has grown into a remarkable system designed to give the average Catholic a solid foundation for a lifetime of Bible reading. Parishes around the world are finding renewed faith and increased involvement among parishioners whose lives have been changed by this exciting study series.

The Great Adventure Catholic Bible study system provides related materials that include video DVDs, audio CDs, and workbooks. Also available are Live Seminars hosted by our Bible study Teachers.

"I am impressed with the methodology and growth of The Great Adventure: A Journey Through the Bible. The canonical approach that The Great Adventure employs is a marvelous way to introduce the faithful to salvation history. When Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium are all brought together in study the result is a clearer picture of God's will, resulting in a roadmap for living. The Great Adventure, being faithful to Dei Verbum (the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on Divine Revelation), is bearing much fruit in the Church today and contributing to a stronger, more informed laity." Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. Archbishop of Chicago

The Bible Timeline is Step One in our three-part foundational Catholic Bible study series. Step Two, Adventures in Matthew: The King and His Kingdom, focuses on Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises of the Old Testament touching on Jesus’ establishment of the Church and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Building on The Bible Timeline and Adventures in Matthew is Step Three, Adventures in Acts: Foundations of the Church and Spread of the Kingdom. By showing how Christ’s work continues through each of us in the Church today.

Catholic music, pass on friends and family

The Goal of CatholicJukebox.com

CatholicJukebox.com brings people closer to Jesus Christ through music that is faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church. As a hub for Contemporary Catholic Music, CatholicJukeBox.com provides musicians with a presence on the web. Through CatholicJukebox.com, the music and their message of faithful Catholic artists reaches larger audiences via our searchable database, radio services, streaming online audio, and downloadable podcasts.

History of CatholicJukebox.com

In the mid 90's Mark Muretisch maintained a list of Catholic musician names on the Internet. With the help of Susan Bailey, that list became the Contemporary Catholic Artist Network (CCAN). Joining the list in 1997, George Leite decided that the list needed links to sound files so interested people could hear examples. Using the technology available, George created song examples using Real® audio files. George created CatholicJukebox.com from this new list in cooperation with CCAN. A year later, the CCAN list was incorporated into CatholicJukebox.com. The website changed to be database driven with over 100 names. Needing to expand how music was delivered, in January of 2000, CatholicJukebox.com began broadcasting via a Live365.com radio station. Broadcasting in AM quality sound, this allowed Catholic music to be heard 24/7 on the Internet. With the advent of podcasting, CatholicJukebox.com began The Catholic Rockers podcast in November of 2005. Now in 2007, there are over 700 entries in the directory, radio listeners have totaled over 37,000 hours of listening, and podcast listeners have downloaded over 45,000 shows.

Fatherhood

New Featured Topic on Fathers for Good Web Site The Knights of Columbus' init

4th degree

Worthy Sir Knights

The Worthy Chapter Secretary Kamal Alsawaf has requested on behalf of Fr Nabil, Pastor of St Ephrem’s and a Fourth Degree Knight, a call out in full regalia for Bishop Cordileone’s visit to St Ephrem’s Maronite Catholic Church.

I would like as many of you as possible to attend this event. I realize this is a short notice but it is extremely important to be there.

Show time for the event is 6:00 PM

St Ephrem’ Maronite Catholic Church

750 Medford Street, El Cajon 92020

6:30 Rosary and Procession to Mariam Mother of life Shrine, followed by a Mass at 7:00 PM at the Shrine.

The reason for this gathering is the Rosary and a Mass, for the passing of proposition 8 on the up coming ballot.

If you have any questions give me a call or contact SK Michael Burr, District Marshal

Larry Campitiello, Master

Southern California District

Protecting Marriage

My Brothers

Please see the attached message addressed to our State Deputy. He is 100 % behind this program and would like us all to do our part. Please contact everyone in your address book and get the word out. We must not lose this fight.

Larry

Dear Worthy State Deputy,

We are respectfully inviting the State Council to participate in the leadership for Catholics for ProtectMarriage.com in ways that you feel would be most beneficial to the over all campaign.

We appreciate the support of the State Council for the long-term Stand with Children effort. While it remains a critical state and national educational priority, the more immediate business of passing Proposition 8 has required us to suspend operations until the beginning of 2009. We hope to resume our partnership on that effort at that time.

Turning to the Prop 8 campaign, Ned Dolejsi and ProtectMarriage.com have asked me to organize and chair Catholics for ProtectMarriage.com – the lay-led Catholic organization and recruitment effort in support of Prop 8. The Knights played a critical part in the qualification effort for Prop 8; it is an understatement to say that brother Knights are crucial to the success of the campaign in November.

With much of the preliminary work on the campaign completed, the grassroots volunteer effort is slated to begin the weekend of August 16 with neighborhood canvassing throughout the state. That does not leave much time for a major organizational effort to support that. In addition to recruiting tens of thousands of Catholic volunteers, we are currently working on identifying and appointing Catholic leaders in every diocese, region and county.

Part of the strategy is to solicit endorsements from every parish ministry and every Catholic fraternal, service, devotional, ethnic, and social organization in the state. We are asking each group to appoint a liaison and encourage their members to volunteer directly for the campaign. That will enable coordination on Catholic projects as well as overall campaign efforts in the community. This lay-led effort will be coordinated closely with the California Catholic Conference and diocesan programs.

If you wish, we would be happy to list the Knights of Columbus as a co-sponsor of this Catholic coalition and include its logo on Catholics for ProtectMarriage.com material along with the logos of the California Catholic Conference and Catholics for the Common Good. We are already extending the same offer to the National Council of Catholic Women, which as you know is a coordinating council for many women’s groups including Catholic Daughters and the Young Ladies Institute. Others may be added in the future in the future, but this will be a very selective group.

Most importantly, Ned Dolejsi and I would like to offer the following suggestions for ways in which the State Council can help move the “Yes on 8 -- ProtectMarriage.com grassroots campaign ahead rapidly:

1. Announce the formation of Catholics for ProtectMarriage.com by email so that brother Knights will know of this coordinated Catholic effort and can connect more directly with the campaign that will start shortly in the communities surrounding their parishes. This is essential for the implementation of the campaign’s grassroots plan. Through you, we would also like to extend an offer to brother Knights for leadership positions in the top campaign hierarchy at the regional or county levels.

2. Establish a liaison at the State Council level to facilitate communications between the campaign and state officers, and through them with Chapter Presidents and District Directors.

3. Arrange a state leadership conference call to brief Chapter Presidents, District Deputies and representatives from Councils on campaign strategy, timelines and the imperative of grassroots participation and leadership. We propose to have a bishop, Ned Dolejsi and a senior campaign professional participate on the call. Because of the shortness of time to get organized, it would be best to arrange the call within the next 10 days.

We know this is a busy time as you and fellow officers prepare to leave for the Annual Convention. Since we are about to print large volumes of literature for Catholics for ProtectMarriage.com, please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to have the Knights represented as a sponsor of the coalition.

Ned and I would be happy to discuss this with you, but he is out of town until Thursday or Friday.

For the Common Good,

Bill May
415 651 4171
415 738 0421 (Fax)
ccgaction.org